{"product_id":"salute-9781925780406","title":"Salute","description":"\u003cp\u003eA work that shifts from high to low, philosophical, to ethical, to comic, in Bolton's well known, and highly praised, flexible style. A new collection from a prolific poet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGee these poems be limber, you think, flipping thru the pages, admiring, here, the cut of this poem's jib, there the poise \u0026amp; rancour of another. For this is a book that might save your heart, a book to pull from your jacket pocket at some moment of last judgement \u0026amp; wave at the gate keeper, a tall and bearded dude, surely a hipster - \u003cem\u003eavant la lettre\u003c\/em\u003e but also \u003cem\u003eafter \u003c\/em\u003eit - \u003cem\u003eoutside of time in fact\u003c\/em\u003e, where final judgements are, and truth and poetry. You wave it at him. \u003cem\u003eIt's a talisman, dude\u003c\/em\u003e, you sau. 'An earnest, ' says the figure, 'of your capacity for cool and rigour?' He nods and you smile. You both smile - and he waves you in.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePraise for Ken Bolton: \u003cbr\u003e \"... bitchy, dreamy, acute ... a deeply serious - \u0026amp; witth * clmost self-canceling - consciousness at work\" - Lynn McCredden, \u003cem\u003eHeat\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Easy to appreciate, lightheartedness is not a natural or easy gift, and Bolton's - brilliantly articulate - shimmers with a sense of being \"amusing \u0026amp; sort of\/crooked in relation to things.\" - Nicholas Birns, \u003cem\u003eTransnational Literature\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbout the author: \u003cbr\u003e A gay, light-hearted bastard, Ken Bolton cuts a moodily romantic figure within the dun Australian literary landscape, his name inevitably conjuring perhaps that best known image of him, bow-tie askew, lipstick-smeared, grinning cheerfully at the wheel of his 1958 Jaguar D-type, El Cid. Born in Sydney in 1949 he works at the Australian Experimental Art Foundation in Adelaide and edits Little Esther books.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-5657247\"\u003eKen Bolton\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Puncher \u0026amp; Wattmann\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/14\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 144\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.43lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.34d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781925780406\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1925780406\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-POE\"\u003ePoetry\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-POE010000\"\u003eAustralian \u0026amp; Oceanian\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-LCO\"\u003eLiterary Collections\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-LCO005000\"\u003eAustralian \u0026amp; Oceanian\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Puncher \u0026 Wattmann","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44437680062701,"sku":"9781925780406","price":22.65,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_1fe57210-301a-4930-a31a-c0b46856e450.jpg?v=1700132395","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/salute-9781925780406","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}